Re: Best PCI sound card for XP machine?

Posted on 2019-12-18, 16:27

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by dan86

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$50 to $100.. for the card by itself without the external box. Cheapest card by itself I see on eBay right now is $79. If you want everything, you are looking at $200. I've been keeping an eye out for months for one to pop up for a good price. They come up for a good price every now and then, I got …

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Re: Best PCI sound card for XP machine?

Posted on 2019-12-18, 16:24

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Dragonslayer182 wrote: I'm mostly looking for the best EAX if I'm gonna be honest. I also don't have too much money atm so I do want an inexpensive card, no more than 30$ for a good one. At that price a X-Fi card would be right for you.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-12-18, 15:10

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To be fair those EliteBooks are 7-8 years old now Still, they could have been resold or given to charity. It runs W10 fine. Maybe they were thinking of the potential liability they would face if the laptop had a battery catch fire or something like that. That is the reason many companies around …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2019-12-18, 15:01

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by dan86

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Might be a shot in the dark, but has anyone tried a older Sager/Clevo from the 90s? The Clevo 6200AT has an ESS AudioDrive sound card, mmx Pentium and pci trident video card of some sort.

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Re: Best PCI sound card for XP machine?

Posted on 2019-12-17, 19:37

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The pro 4 is defiantly a lot better It isn't. Especially for games. Explain? I never ran into one game that had problems with it the Audigy 4 pro does everything the 2zs does and then some aside from lacking a header for a game port,and has a much better DAC that does not sound like mud. The only …

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Re: Best PCI sound card for XP machine?

Posted on 2019-12-17, 19:22

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Audigy 4 Pro is Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro with a different DAC. You don't need to look for it specifically. Unless if you want the better DAC, I have used the pro 4, 2 ZS and 2 ZS Platinum Pro. The pro 4 is defiantly a lot better and worth getting if you want just one sound card with EAX support and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-17, 18:52

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nd22 wrote: Thank you! Do you have any plans for it?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-17, 18:26

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by dan86

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nd22 wrote: Just some Abit motherboard: PS: how do I add pictures larger than 2mb? Nice find.

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Re: Best PCI sound card for XP machine?

Posted on 2019-12-17, 18:20

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My pick. Audigy 4 pro if you need EAX, prodigy HD2 if you want he best sound and don't care about EAX. Good luck finding an Audigy 4 Pro. When I do see them, they are stupidly expensive. sure you'll see more Audigy 2's for sale, but they are not rare at all. I'm not sure what you consider stupidly …

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Re: Cooler for GeForce4 Ti 4600

Posted on 2019-12-17, 17:17

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by dan86

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what about the old arctic coolers? like the arctic NV silencer?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-17, 17:16

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Artex, don't know how the heck you found a Monster 3D boxed with all the "trimmings" but it gives me hope! Patience!! :) That is a big thing. I bought and sold all manner of vintage parts over the years and I know how having patience will alow you to get some nice parts if your not picky on witch …

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Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated

Posted on 2019-12-17, 17:03

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Dominus wrote: Before the same gets posted again and again, just enjoy the preview Dosfreak posted 😉 Is that preview a joke or the real deal? Some posts make it out to be joke of some sorts.

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Re: Best PCI sound card for XP machine?

Posted on 2019-12-17, 16:51

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by dan86

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My pick. Audigy 4 pro if you need EAX, prodigy HD2 if you want he best sound and don't care about EAX.

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Re: How to remove a standard feature, then sell it back to your marks, sorry, your VALUED customers

Posted on 2019-12-17, 16:49

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DosFreak wrote: So if you haven't played it then what's your problem? Good point, but the OP might be thinking a little more out of the box. The old saying, first they came for X then they came for me comes to mind here.

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Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated

Posted on 2019-12-17, 16:42

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I also hope there's an option to maintain the purple-y blue colour scheme the site currently has. Hopefully the new site won't be some optics nuclear disaster like so many sites are nowadays... Keeping a color scheme is not a hard thing to do. A better question is, does the site staff want to keep …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 - 5ns ram?

Posted on 2019-12-13, 15:46

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by dan86

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Some V3 3000 wil OC to 200 MHz, even those with 6 or 5.5ns RAM. Hovewer with 5ns the chance is quite high. :happy: I second this. I had a voodoo3 years back with 5ms ram that overclocked well over 200mhz, Keep in mind I had a mild volt mod on the card. Without the volt mod it maxed out around …

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You are an idiot

Posted on 2019-12-10, 18:12

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by dan86

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You are an idiot

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Re: AMD K5 case basge/sticker

Posted on 2019-12-10, 16:23

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by dan86

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I don't think I ever recall seeing a K5 case sticker, but I do recall seeing amd stickers.

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Re: Flash AGP Card Help

Posted on 2019-12-10, 16:08

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by dan86

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Is there a bios setting to default to the PCI video card on that board?

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Re: ~2002-03 build

Posted on 2019-12-10, 16:07

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by dan86

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Warlord wrote: For that build You should pair 1gb sticks of DDR, for 2gb ram it will run significantly faster in pairs and 2gb seems to be about the sweet spot for XP. I missed that. Yes do opt for dual channel ram.

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